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ColorCert Desktop Tools Brochure - EN

ColorCert Desktop Tools Brochure - EN

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Overview: ColorCert Desktop Tools is a print quality assurance software designed to enhance color accuracy and consistency in print production. It supports both job-based and non-job-based workflows, aiming to reduce waste and improve efficiency by minimizing reprints and rejections.

Key Features:

Comprehensive Analysis: Monitors color quality during production to quickly identify issues.
Versatility: Compatible with all printing processes and supports various color modes.
Modular and Scalable: Available for Mac and Windows, with cloud-based asset storage and reporting.
PantoneLIVE Integration: Utilizes digital color standards for accurate color management.

Workflow Support:

Supports mixed workflows, allowing easy transition from legacy systems to job-based workflows for enhanced quality control.
Improves ink room operations through integration with InkFormulation Software.
Optimizes color on press using X-Rite’s BestMatch technology, reducing trial-and-error iterations.

Standards Management:

Associates standards with customers or projects to reduce errors and redundancy.
Checks for existing standards within acceptable tolerance to avoid duplication.

ColorCert Desktop Features:

Includes modules like ColorCert Manager, Pressroom, Inkroom, and QA, each offering specific functionalities such as measurement of solids, tints, and overprints, trend analysis, and built-in reporting.
Supports cloud integration for digital asset management and print quality reporting.
Facilitates job-based workflows with template-based and automated job creation.

Benefits:

Standardizes processes and removes subjectivity in quality control.
Provides comprehensive reporting for identifying and correcting issues.
Links stakeholders across production sites and supply chains.
Automates job assembly to improve workflow efficiency and reduce errors.

Cost Savings:

Reduces non-productive press time and increases throughput.
Minimizes the need for on-press approvals, enhancing customer confidence.
Offers an easy-to-use interface for quick training and operation.

Additional Tools:

ColorCert Repository: A secure cloud-based portal for managing digital assets.
PantoneLIVE: Ensures accurate color reproduction across different substrates and technologies.
ColorCert QA: Provides actionable insights for managing color standards and improving performance.
ScoreCard Server: Offers a consolidated view of print quality and performance metrics.

Conclusion: ColorCert Desktop Tools, part of the ColorCert Suite, is a comprehensive solution for achieving color accuracy and consistency in print production, offering significant efficiency improvements and cost savings.

Catalog excerpts

ColorCert® Desktop Tools Print Quality Assurance Software

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Driving Excellence in Quality ColorCert Desktop is a print quality assurance tool that supports both job-based and non-job-based workflows. ColorCert was designed to reduce the time and complexity of managing color standards and customer specifications to minimize waste with fewer reprints and rejections. It improves efficiency by reducing time spent getting to and maintaining accurate color, enabling more jobs on press per shift. • Comprehensive Analysis Capability: Monitor color quality during production and identify problems quickly. Versatile: Supports all printing processes; handles process,...

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ColorCert Manager ColorCert Pressroom ColorCert Pressroom Essentials ColorCert Inkroom Measurement of Tints, Overprints, Gray Balance Create/Edit ColorCert Assets: Jobs, Rules, Profiles, Inks, Backings Create/Edit ColorCert Assets: Substrates, Spot Colors BestMatch: Guidance for Color Optimization Trend Analysis: View of Consistency within a Job Built-in Reporting: Color Performance, Scoring Quick Compare: Check of Individual Colors Proof Verification: Check of Proof to Job Press Curves: Dot Gain Compensation Curves Electronic Record Tracking: Audit Logging for Regulated Environments PantoneLIVE:...

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ColorCert® Desktop Tools Print Quality Assurance Software ColorCert Desktop Tools, a part of the ColorCert Suite of solutions, helps pressrooms achieve color accuracy and consistency, especially when used in conjunction with an X-Rite eXact handheld spectrophotometer. Benefits of a ColorCert Job-Based Workflow • • • • Facilitates process standardization and removes subjectivity in quality control with an easy-to-understand score Offers insight into areas of opportunity to identify, evaluate, and correct using comprehensive reporting capabilities Links stakeholders within a single production site...

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ColorCert Desktop Tools Brochure - EN

ColorCert Desktop Tools Brochure - EN

Catalog excerpts

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